14 WTF Facts About Female Pubic Hair You Probably Didn’t Know

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Here’s another topic we all think about, but avoid talking about in public: pubic hair! Why is it there? Why the hell are we waxing it, shaving it, slaughtering it, and relentlessly getting rid of it? Is our pubic hair alone in the universe? Are they on the verge of extinction? Here are all the answers…

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3. We had hair on our genitals when we were kids, we just couldn’t see it.

What is known as “vellus hair”—thin, fine tufts that are nearly visible to the naked eye—is present in all children. What is known as “pubic hair” is the coarser, curlier, and bushier hair that appears during the onset of adolescence?

4. It serves as a primitive odor trap and aids in the wafting of human pheromones.

10. In the Victorian era, women wore wigs on their vaginas.

During the Victorian era, a lot of women shaved their pubic hair in order to prevent lice infestations, and many of them invested in a Merkin, which is sort of a pubic hair wig. Today, some women working in the porn industry use Merkins as well.

12. In Asia, women pay for pubic hair transplants.

In the West, women are generally pube-shamed and are relentlessly waxing themselves. Asian women, however, pay hundreds of dollars to have pubic hair implanted onto their crotches to give them that fuller, lusher, and more natural look!

13. People used to exchange pubic hair souvenirs.

English researchers discovered pubic hair among the souvenir items of the 1700s and 1800s. Scotland’s St. Andrews University has a museum containing a snuffbox that is stuffed to the gills with the pubes of a mistress of King George IV. Other men of the era would attach their lover’s pubic hair onto their hats as a public display of their sexual prowess.